arXiv AI

PACT-WAM: Predicting Actions and Visual Foresight with Compact Temporal Encoding for Robot Manipulation

PACT‑WAM is a world‑action model that simultaneously predicts a 16‑step action trajectory and its corresponding visual forecast for robot manipulation. It uses a hierarchical history encoder that compresses past observations into fewer tokens, reducing processing cost by 75% compared to dense encoding. The model’s shared flow module updates action and visual states jointly, and a TiTok‑VAE decoder reconstructs multi‑view future images, which are then used by a vision‑language component (Proposal Review) to improve execution‑prefix selection and proposal rejection, boosting success rates on several benchmarks.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

MT-WAM: Reorienting the One-Pass Predictive Representation Toward Action Generation

MT‑WAM enhances the Fast‑WAM framework by adding complementary supervision for future 2‑D point trajectories and visual features while keeping the original training objectives. A lightweight dual‑stream branch and structured attention mask isolate motion‑specific processing, and motion‑stream tokens provide additional dynamics cues to the action expert. During inference, MT‑WAM skips future‑video prediction, using cached video and motion information to achieve higher success rates on LIBERO, LIBERO‑Plus, RoboTwin 2.0 Clean2Rand, and several real‑world tasks.

By Yiguang Yang, Jiankun Peng, Xiaoming Wang, Yiran Zhang, Zhibo Fang
arXiv AI
Aug 27

DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation

DELE-w0.5 is a robotic manipulation framework that predicts future latent states instead of generating full video sequences, thereby inferring robot actions directly from these compact representations. By focusing on physical state changes rather than visual transitions, it reduces model complexity and inference latency. In 480 real‑robot trials across four long‑horizon tasks, DELE‑w0.5 achieved 62.5 % overall task success and 81.3 % macro ordered‑stage progress, outperforming the strongest baseline by 47.5 and 30.7 percentage points.

By Fenghao Lei, Zhixiong Huang, Long Yang, Jiabao Chen, Peilin Huang, Han Fu, Zhuo Li, Xiaoxue Ren
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

When Plans Change, Remember: Replanning-Guided Visual Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces RePlanMem-VLA, a selective visual memory system for Vision‑Language‑Action models that uses a policy’s own plan revisions as an online memory‑write signal. By detecting unusually large disagreements between temporally aligned action predictions, the method identifies task‑relevant events and updates a bounded visual memory while suppressing redundant frames. Experiments on MIKASA‑Robo‑VLA tasks and real‑robot replay data show that RePlanMem‑VLA retains essential observations in every episode and achieves high ROC‑AUC scores for event detection.

By Victoria Smelova, Daniil Kazachkov, Georgiy Kazantsev, Iuliia Tsvetkova, Egor Cherepanov, Nikita Kachaev, Artem Latyshev, Aleksandr I. Panov, Alexey K. Kovalev
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Dynin-Robotics: Omnimodal Unified Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model

Dynin‑Robotics introduces an omnimodal masked‑diffusion backbone, Dynin‑Omni, that jointly represents language, visual observations, goals, and actions as discrete tokens. By conditioning on different spans, the same model learns action prediction, next‑observation prediction, goal‑state prediction, and trajectory‑to‑instruction reconstruction, enabling test‑time scaling through goal prediction and action‑candidate evaluation. The system, pretrained on 1.33 million trajectories from 48 Open X‑Embodiment datasets, achieves competitive performance on LIBERO, zero‑shot LIBERO‑Plus, and a 78.4 % success rate on a Franka Research 3 robot, while a block‑parallel implementation speeds up action decoding by up to 29.2×.

By Hoeun Lee, Jaeik Kim, Jusang Oh, Jinhyeok Kim, Geon Choi, Hyeonggeun Kim, Jaeyoung Do
arXiv Computer Vision
21h ago

Learning Robotic World Models with Semantic and Visual Feedback

The paper introduces RoboImagine, a framework that refines autoregressive robotic world models by comparing candidate future trajectories using both semantic and visual feedback. It employs diverse search to generate varied candidate paths, a frozen multimodal evaluator for task‑relevant semantic preferences, and pixel‑level visual consistency checks to guide policy optimization. Experiments on RT‑1, BridgeV2, and RoboCasa show that RoboImagine improves visual fidelity (e.g., PSNR gains) and task relevance compared to standard fine‑tuning, with ablations confirming the benefits of diverse search and combined feedback signals.

By Hao Wu, Yuqi Li, Yizhou Zhao, Kun Wang, Xiao Luo, Yu Cheng, Bo An, Yingli Tian, Laszlo A. Jeni, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 9

What Visual Representations Do World Action Models Need?

The paper investigates how different visual representations and integration mechanisms affect the performance of World Action Models (WAMs). It finds that strong general‑purpose visual representations yield the largest robustness gains, that channel‑wise joint prediction offers the best success rate, and that additional sources should only be added if they contribute task‑relevant information beyond existing representations. The authors propose a Representation Recipe (R$^2$‑WAM) that achieves state‑of‑the‑art success rates on RoboCasa GR1 Tabletop and RoboTwin 2.0.